Meet Michelle Kakade, The Indian Woman Who Is Running 6010 Kms Across 59 Cities In India At The Age Of 46

While you wallow in your ‘quarter life crisis’ because you’re suddenly 25, there’s a woman out there, 46 years old, running across the country. Meet Michelle Kakade, an incredible Indian who is giving the nation some serious fitness goals. To put things into perspective, she has a 25-year-old son and a 23-year-old daughter.

Currently, Michelle holds 3 world records – “The First Indian in the 4 Desert Club on completion of the rigorous Four Desert foot races”, “Longest Treadmill Run by Indian - 171Km in 25Hrs.” and “Highest number of Desert Races by an Indian”. Rightly called the ‘Queen of Endurance’, this mother of 2 is all the inspiration the Indian youth needs right now.

Hers is quite an interesting story. She was the best athlete in school, you must think. But the truth is far from it. Michelle was never inclined towards sports and fitness as a child. It was only when she was 35 that she set her foot on the track for the first time. Since that day, there has been no looking back!

She completed the Marathon Des Sables in April 2011 and since then, she been running desert marathons across the world like The Atacama Crossing (Chile), The Gobi March (China), The Sahara Race (Egypt) and The Last Desert (Antarctica).

And no, her journey doesn’t stop there. Michelle Kakade is already off on her next venture and it sounds even more grueling. She dreams of making it to the Guinness Book Of World Records for running along The Golden Quadrilateral in India in the shortest time.